This has been in my garage for quite a while as I keep forgetting to post an advert to sell. Sounds excellent, quality product I have modified the baffle so it is fully removable as they are riveted from the factory. Baffle in is how I had it, nice tone and not too mad. Baffle out is mental, very deep rumble and people certainly hear you coming! Very good condition, barely had it on the bike a year then sold my Fazer. Looking for £120 posted. Please PM me for any details! 

As title, looking for a right hand fairing infill for a Boxeye 600 in decent condition and a cheap screen, preferably standard but not too fussed as long as it's black / smoked. Cheers.

Myself or nobody I know has anything to do with this company, this is just an honest show of appreciation in a time where everyone seems to only review the bad. Had my car insurance renewal come through, I'm still in the "young silly money" bracket even for a cheap run about unfortunately and having a bike too I want it to be cheap as possible. So I was very disappointed to see my 1 year no claims had knocked off the grand total of ....£15! I rang up to cancel my renewal and give a hard time about how I've got £300 off elsewhere, but the guy was extremely helpful and actually agreed that was a poor renewal. He went through all my details again quickly and actually got me a better package than I had previously while also beating the best quote I had had elsewhere by almost £100. You can argue they were trying to pull a sly one with the automatic renewal yeah, but they gave me a month notice to shop around. It's definitely proven to me shopping around for the best quote and doing your research gives you the upper hand as a customer, but definitely can't fault the customer service I received at Swift Cover. Has inspired me to try harder on the bike insurance renewal, although that's not so bad.

After just over 3 years ownership I have decided it's time to sell my trusty Fazer . It's an excellent bike, the best I've owned and ridden in my opinion. However I have a new job that is literally a 5 minute walk and a small van that I use for my band, so don't really NEED a bike currently and am struggling to find the time to ride with my other hobbies taking up a lot of my time. I don't have a garage and don't want to see it not ridden and rotting away under a sheet over winter. Also, if I am being honest, I have lost a bit of my interest in motorcycling  . I want to take a break for a bit, then get something new next spring that I can look forward to and try to relight the spark I have lost. I really enjoy working on bikes as well as riding, so I am going to get something in fairly stock form and plan to do it up. Anyway, the bike!


I have done loads to this bike over the time I've owned it, it was completely standard when bought and as you will see now has many great modifications. I still have most of the stock parts, so I am going to put two prices- £1490 with mods or £1100 with mods removed and reverted to as stock as I can. I can go into more detail on that if required. If I revert to stock, the mods will be available for sale separately.



2001 Silver Yamaha FZS 600 Fazer
31,637 Miles
Service History (Most done by myself, have kept docs of what was done. Good oil always used and changed every 4000 miles).
Excellent condition Metzeler z8 Interact tyres front and rear (covered approx 1500 miles).
All brake calipers cleaned and seals replaced with OEM seals. Plenty of life in pads.
FZS 1000 rear caliper, new OEM seals. Pads in good condition.
HEL Braided steel brake lines front and rear
Brand new OEM front mudguard fitted approx 1500 miles ago, old one in poor condition can also be included.
Carbon look Fender Extender.
Naked look 8 inch round headlight and stainless brackets
Smoked mini indicators front and rear
"Dark Smoke" Puig naked screen
Stainless "Fazer" Radiator Guard
Stainless Motad Downpipes
Silver Renthal "Street fighter" bars with OEM bar ends (good weight unlike crappy renthal bar ends)
Carbon effect headstock protector and speedo surround (looks like 2003 fazer clocks)
15mm Stainless Handle bar risers and straight clamps (more comfy, better looking, less back in your lap than standard)
Custom "Fazer" Seat, slightly raised (good for tall riders)
K&N Air Filter
Heavy Duty Chain(gold) and sprockets in good condition, slight surface rust.
Carbon look hugger from the folk legend Noggyfighter 
"Fazer engraved" stainless rear torque arm
25mm Rear Jack Up Kit


Now the real tasty bits:
Ohlins Rear Shock
Mivv Stainless Oval Can (Baffles out LOUD!!! I have baffles in currently)
Front fork internals modified by our very own Kebab19 (Jeff, or the R6 shock guy as most probably know him).  This includes K-Tech linear springs, gold valve emulators, new Yamalube 15w oil and Yamaha Thundercat fork preload adjusters which look smart. All fork seals and bushes and one stanchion have also been replaced by myself for OEM parts, I have the receipts.


The bike handles exceptionally and is adjustable to personal taste. You can genuinely keep up with much sportier bikes in the twisties and it is also better when the road surface is bumpy / uneven mid corner - it's far less likely to be upset which improves safety. The brakes are excellent, the rear thou caliper really is great for carefully scrubbing off a bit of corner speed and of course looks tasty  . Engine and gearbox are sweet, the usual bit of cam chain tick when cold at first but goes away completely when warm. Clutch is good and did fit brand new OEM clutch springs last year. Plates were in good condition. As for the naked look, I understand this isn't for everyone. I personally love muscle bikes so I think it looks ace, not too over the top or bodged like some others. The original fairing, headlight, bracket, indicators etc can also be included however some modifications were made to the wiring so may take a bit of "fixing" to get it all back together. The fairing is slightly damaged, it had an argument with a wall and lost hence the naked conversion. It is minor damage though. The bike has never been dropped or slid down the road since I have owned it. The overall condition is very good. I will honestly be sad to see it go. MOT expires May 2016. PM me for more details. I will be uploading pics tomorrow or Sunday after I have cleaned it properly.

Looking through bike magazine today (well pleased to see the mighty Fazer 600 in all its glory on the back page  ) and the previous few issues, I've found a BIG niche in the market! Every manufacturer has pretty much designed the same bike but put their badge and some "characteristic touches" on it, except one... Harley Davidson have not made one of these "adventure on road with marginal off road with the correct tyres and B mode detuned sport engine with all the electronic whiz bangs do it all insert manufacturer badge here tourers" like every other manufacturer is making. I'm going to send them some design ideas immediately, this could be my biggest break since winning a fiver off my mate last year in our fantasy premier league. It must be big enough to crush the competition, definitely the characteristic V twin (no de-tune necessary), cheesy enough for the Americans to love it (yeee ha), all day comfortable, lovely sound, in your face head turning looks, plenty of luggage space and a ride plush enough to iron out the worst of Britain's lovely pot holed highway for all the British customers of which I suspect there could be many..... I'll keep you all posted when they hire me, here is an early prototype I just built this afternoon awaiting the stars and stripes on the tank. I can see this wiping the floor with the competition in next months bike magazine!

Went for a great ride today, however have been noticing another engine sound recently. Bike has slight cam chain ticking noise for first few minutes until warm, bit annoying but not too worried been told it's normal. I am now noticing however that in 1st and 2nd gear especially, when accelerating hard and putting the bike under load there is a knocking sound from the engine that always occurs at approximately 3500rpm. This is worrying me a bit, the performance is fine however and it never does it on deceleration only under load. It also doesn't do it in neutral when revving I don't think although I will try that again tomorrow holding it at 3.5k as I don't think I tested that properly. I don't think the noise occurs in 4th and above strangely at those revs and the bike pulls cleanly all the way through the revs. Might take it to a garage to have a look at, if it's something bad I might just rip the bike apart and sell it for parts because it seems every time I fix something it works great for about 2 months and then something else decides to break...

I've only ever test ridden one bike I ever owned, my 125 so all the others were bought from research, reviews and sitting on the bike to test comfort etc. What is the actual procedure for test riding a motorbike? Is there a minimum age? I'm 22 so would that be frowned upon? Does it have to be on special days where specific test ride bikes are put out for the public to try? I'm just interested really, want to see once and for all if there is an itch that must be scratched but it's far too much of a gamble to do blind without a proper try first.

After last years awesome tour of Wales with my Dad and brother we decided to return with some variations of last years route. Unfortunately this time my brother couldn't come as I couldn't get time off work in his school summer holiday so it was just myself and my Dad. But this trip was even better! My Dad got the tyre on his SV changed and his wheel balanced, so he was riding so much more confidently which was great. We covered about 850 miles or so in total I think and the roads were absolutely excellent and there wasn't a drop of rain. My personal favourite part of the trip is when we ended up doing a detour down some unclassified roads to a place called lake Vyrnwy which was absolutely stunning, really felt like a proper adventure as the roads were single track through moorland, forest and huge valleys and there was nobody around for miles. The lake itself was awesome too and the weather was fantastic. We also did the Llanberis pass and Snowdonia backwards to how we did it last year and I preferred it in this direction, was much better seeing the scenery and going up the pass with mount Snowdon on your right in my opinion and approaching into snowdonia you could see all of the mountains in the distance as you carved up some epic corners! Biking perfection so close to home, it really makes me want to explore further afield now and go to Europe and possibly further!


My bike felt amazing this trip, it was much more comfortable than last year and all of the work I have done to it has really paid off! Usually when I swap with my Dad and have a go on my SV I think "wow this is great" but this time I just thought I really want my Fazer back! Its trips like this that really make you realise that the Fazer 600 is such a superb little bike, plus with how mine now looks and feels I can finally say that I am finished with it at last! It was totally faultless the entire trip, handled excellent, was comfortable and I got very respectable mpg. I love the way you can just shove it in 6th for miles and miles and let it pull you through the bends with ease, its just glides along. Amazing. Here are some of the best pictures I took. This is also the first pictures of my newly Naked Fazer so I hope you all like the change as much as me:

Got my calipers back today after having them refurbed with new seals etc, went to re fit them to the bike with new hel braided lines and there is a big problem. We can get fluid to the calipers, then the fluid coming out into the bleed nipple and pipe is nice and clean no air but there is absolutely no pressure whatsoever at the lever. This is so frustrating because it was the very last job I am doing on my fazer rebuild since my accident, this was meant to be the last easy piece in the puzzle.


My Dad fitted the brake lines, he put the yellow label at the top and the black rubber bit at the caliper end is this correct? Just ruling out anything strange we may have missed. We have tried priming them, bleeding them manually and also used a vacuum and it is all resulting in fluid entering calipers with minimal air bubbles or completely clean but absolutely no pressure at the lever. The fluid is not leaving the reservoir very quickly either. I am now thinking the master cylinder has somehow had it? Any help would be massively appreciated!

If anyone has any spare infills that they wouldn't mind selling that would be great. Looking for decent structural condition but don't mind if they need painting. I'm ideally looking for a cheap standard screen in good condition. Thanks

I haven't seen another Fazer 600 with a Mivv exhaust can, so thought I would do a review on the experience of mine in case it is helpful to anyone. Skip to the bottom for the quick summary.


This is the first aftermarket exhaust can I have ever bought or owned on any of my bikes so I was quite unsure of what to actually get, I have always wanted one though and this is the first bike I've had that actually sounds pretty decent. I did a lot of research and shortlisted a few companies; Simmi Performance, SP Engineering, Pipe Werx and Mivv. I wanted an exhaust that was fairly standard looking, nothing too mental or stubby looking, but light with a nice sound without breaking the bank. I also wanted to be a bit different from the crowd so avoided delkevic, beowulf etc. My maximum was £200, for that I could have got a carbon Simmi can like Noggys which I think looks ace, a carbon SP, a few nice Pipe Werx cans in carbon / stainless or the most basic Mivv can in stainless only. Looking at all of them and reading reviews, I ended up going for the Mivv as I thought it looked really smart, it had great reviews and matched all my criteria. The fact they make OEM stuff for the likes of Aprillia and used to be the manufacturer of Honda's moto gp exhausts also filled me with confidence.


It took a long time to arrive, almost a month as it came from Italy. When I got it out of the box I was initially really impressed with the quality, however the so called "removable baffle" was held in by a rivet which was annoying as I wanted the easy option of baffle in or out. The instructions are awful, really badly translated from Italian to English and the diagrams are tiny. The gasket they provided was too small, the exhaust clamp was too big.... It was an utter ball ache to actually fit and took about 3 weeks (due partly to poor ebay postal service) to get the thing on properly.


Once on, I was a bit underwhelmed by the "baffle in" sound. It is a nicer tone than stock I guess but not really any louder. So out of curiosity I went to the trouble of drilling out the rivet that holds in the baffle and removing it. Wow, what a sound! On tick over it sounded really meaty, so I took it out on the road for a test. It was epic...for about 5 minutes. Then it started to really piss me off and I felt quite paranoid that everyone was probably looking at me thinking "look at that berk on that Fazer". It is sooooo bassy, the rumble actually reverberated in my helmet and made this really very annoying and distracting sound that I didn't like at all. Perhaps a different helmet with more ear padding would have been okay, I don't know. It is an absolute howitzer of a thing un-baffled tough thats for sure, however I do have to say that last Sunday riding with my dad on one of my favorite roads and giving it the beans un-baffled was probably the most exciting ride of my life. It did sound truly epic at 6000+ and I felt like a moto gp rider, but yeah day to day it is just absolutely ridiculous so I then had to go to the trouble of finding a small enough bolt and nut to fit in the rivet hole to hold the baffle in, which now makes it sound like a wet fart again... If there was some way I could get a middle ground, the thing would be perfect but I am pretty sure that isn't an option unfortunately.


So, to sum up.
Price - 8/10 For £200, you get a pretty big name brand and a top quality product once you can assemble it properly.
Looks - 9/10 In my opinion, it looks really classy without looking tacky or too dull. Just what I wanted. I really like the logo especially.
Sound Baffled - 6/10 Not worth upgrading from stock if you plan on keeping it baffled, or if you want the look of a sporty can probably worth saving about £80 and going for a Delk or Simmi
Sound Unbaffled 9/10 Absolutely monstrous, even on a fazer so can't imagine what it would be like on an R1 or Tuono or something. Not for me though, way too impractical for day to day use and makes you feel a bit of a plonker that's compensating for something.
Postage - 3/10 Took a month, though was tracked the whole way which was handy.
Instruction Manual and Assembly - 1/10 Instructions poor, diagram too small, most annoyingly supplied with WRONG PARTS?!?!


I am not sure if I can honestly say I would recommend this exhaust can, however I don't regret buying it either. Without trying a few out, I was unable to know what was good or not and took a gamble on this one. I do like it, if anyone knows a way to mod the baffle to make it a bit less quiet but not as MEGA as un-baffled I would be very grateful. My mates Beowulf sounded ace on his bandit and another friend had one on his hornet, neither were as raw as the Mivv un-baffled and still sounded good baffled. Don't look as good as the Mivv though, but I will go for one of them next time perhaps. Hope this helps.

Recently been hearing and feeling a bit of strange rumbling from the clutch on my bike when it is idling. It goes away if I pull in the clutch lever though. It makes the engine sound quite lumpy and can affect the tick over slightly, but as soon as I pull in the lever the engine sounds really smooth so its definitely the clutch. Is this normal or does it mean time for a new clutch? The clutch feels alright when being used, can be a bit weak feeling when pulling away in 1st but changing gear is mostly alright not quite as slick as some bikes ive ridden though and have to concentrate on the changes more.


I also removed the baffle on my new Mivv can today, its the first time ive ever had on aftermarket can on a bike and the difference was pretty huge. Baffle in was a nicer tone than standard but a bit quiet, so I took it out and it is so beefy sounding. Not obscenely loud, but still quite loud. I love the sound but am a bit worried about police and stuff...What is the actual penalty for getting pulled over for it im guessing a small fine? If you carry the baffle and put it in at the roadside would they let you off? Where I live the majority of people who own bikes that have aftermarket cans don't run them with the baffles in, some are far louder than mine is, so I'm assuming its fairly relaxed as long as you're careful. Bike still runs lovely anyway, no change whatsoever and I havent checked the plugs or anything but engine has no flat spots and performs exactly the same so that is a relief.